Bro, I don’t give a flying blue fart about your nude photos. I have about as much use for your nude photos as a fish would have for a toaster. However, I am in school to become an IT professional. This bill threatens everything I’ve worked my entire life for, and I’m not going to take it lying down. Have you considered using a password to protect your files? Just saying, that would cut down on people accessing them without your

Part of me wants to say troll. But if you really think like that, what the hell is wrong with you? How can you SUPPORT this? It’s not about “porn” or “nude pictures”. It’s about our RIGHTS. There is MUCH more about the internet than porn.

I would just like you to know that you are very ill in the head. Furthermore, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Censorship affects EVERYBODY, not just this weird demographic of porn-addicted activists that you seem to have made up in your spare time. This is especially true when the bill serving as the basis for this censorship is so broadly worded. Imagine clicking on a youtube link thinking it’s legitimate and then BAM! felony charge. That’s very possible given the wording SOPA is currently using. Personally, I don’t give a flying fig newton about your porn collection, but I would like to feel safe browsing the internet without having to mull over for three days as t whether reading somebody else’s facebook post will put me in jail.

No ma’am. The Internet WILL be regulated after the Eighth Circuit Court orders the FCC to regulate “Internet wire communications” just like TV and radio are regulated now by law. It will not eliminate pornography but will no longer allow pornography to be accessed by anonymous persons. POOF!

Blatant theft of people’s work is one thing, but this bill extends beyond that problem and threatens people who are in no way involved in that. Think of it this way: It’s as if every time you left a store, someone could point at you and shout “Hey, he just stole a candy bar!”, and suddenly you’d have security guards pouncing on you and a felony charge waiting just around the bend. SOPA won’t save your precious property, but it will make it possible for anyone who doesn’t like you to royally screw you over for something you haven’t done.

Furthermore, I don’t see any problem with spanking the brats who try to take other people’s work and pass them off as their own, but this is just ridiculous. It’s going to punish more than just the thieves. It will punish the mothers who send home videos to their soldier son overseas with copyrighted materials (properly attributed, mind you) used as the soundtrack (perhaps their son’s favorite song). It will punish documentarians who have no way to block out audio used in PA systems and are thus forced to “infringe on your copyright” with proper attribution in order to make their own free expression possible. Even worse, there is no warning system. If you “get caught infringing copyright”, BOOM, that’s it; you’re a felon.

I hear you, man, but this is not a bill to win back the “poor artist’s” intellectual property. This is an attempt by the business-oriented producers to ensure that their content is under draconian lock and key.

I say we should use are constitutional right to fight the government take these money grubbing people out of our government and remake our government to were you have to have a degree to in it and they have to swear a oath to up hold the constitution and if they break that oath they get the death penalty

Its amazing how money can influence anything, even if its so very and utterly wrong.
If this passes, I’m crossing state lines and going to Canada. No way will I be put in jail just for karaoke-ing a song on Youtube. This is such a joke.

235 years of fighting for freedom slowly going down the drain. It sure would be nice for our elected would represent the people instead of special interest. There is no doubt that this bill was introduced strictly for the monetary gain that will be received by our representatives and no consideration for freedom from censorship.

I can imagine the Internet as a nation in itself. Its citizenship includes millions, even billions of people from countries across the world. On the internet, people decide what is right and wrong, be it voicing their opinions, or even liking or disliking a comment. It’s simple and true democracy, at its finest. As such, the Internet has an efficient form of self government, where everyone can vote.

If any nation attempts to censor the internet, I’d say it’s comparable to an act of aggression on another country.

The Internet is the one true “land of the free and home of the brave,” where the citizens of the world can freely express their ideas and opinions. Let’s keep it that way!

Copyrights are important, but the mechanisms in this bill, the potential for abuse by right’s holders, and the self-censorship and prior-censorship that would occur will destroy the internet as we know it. It will become less social, less inter-connected, less stable. This bill truly scares me.

lets make this simple.
1. it abridges freedoms including exspression and speech
2.its a pointles sbill that benifits the country and its real issues in no way shape or form
3. WHY THE HECK ARE THEY WASTING THEIR TIME ON DISTRACTIONS STILL?

We elect people to the United States government to represent the wants and need of the American people, not the wants and needs of these elected representatives or the wants and needs of the people with the most money. With only 1% of the people who view this bill actually supporting it, and with all of the opposition that we the people have made to show that this is NOT what we want and NOT what we need, why is it even being considered?
There are bigger problems they could and should be focusing on, but instead they delay and turn toward frivolous issues such as this. Leave our constitutional rights alone and focus on the important things. Like, oh I don’t know, unemployment and education.

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